The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 19
{19:1} He entered and was passing through Yericho. {19:2} There was
a man named Zakkai. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
{19:3} He was trying to see who Yeshua was, and couldn't because of
the crowd, because he was short. {19:4} He ran on ahead, and climbed
up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
{19:5} When Yeshua came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and
said to him, "Zakkai, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at
your house." {19:6} He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
{19:7} When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to
lodge with a man who is a sinner."
{19:8} Zakkai stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my
goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of
anyone, I restore four times as much."
{19:9} Yeshua said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house,
because he also is a son of Avraham. {19:10} For the Son of Man came
to seek and to save that which was lost."
{19:11} As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable,
because he was near Yerushalayim, and they supposed that the Kingdom
of God would be revealed immediately. {19:12} He said therefore, "A
certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a
kingdom, and to return. {19:13} He called ten servants of his, and
gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I
come.' {19:14} But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after
him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
{19:15} "It happened when he had come back again, having received
the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given
the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had
gained by conducting business. {19:16} The first came before him,
saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
{19:17} "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you
were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over
ten cities.'
{19:18} "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five
minas.'
{19:19} "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
{19:20} Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept
laid away in a handkerchief, {19:21} for I feared you, because you are
an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap
that which you didn't sow.'
{19:22} "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you,
you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that
which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow. {19:23}
Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I
might have earned interest on it?' {19:24} He said to those who stood
by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten
minas.'
{19:25} "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' {19:26} 'For I
tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him
who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
{19:27} But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign
over them here, and kill them before me.'" {19:28} Having said these
things, he went on ahead, going up to Yerushalayim.
{19:29} It happened, when he drew near to Beit-Pagey and Beit-Anyah,
at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his
[1>]talmidim[<1], {19:30} saying, "Go your way into the village on the
other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon
no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. {19:31} If anyone asks
you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'"
{19:32} Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he
had told them. {19:33} As they were untying the colt, the owners of it
said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" {19:34} They said, "The
Lord needs it." {19:35} They brought it to Yeshua. They threw their
cloaks on the colt, and set Yeshua on them. {19:36} As he went, they
spread their cloaks in the way. {19:37} As he was now getting near, at
the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the
[2>]talmidim[<2] began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for
all the mighty works which they had seen, {19:38} saying, "Blessed is
the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Shalom in heaven, and
glory in the highest!"
{19:39} Some of the Perushim from the multitude said to him,
"Teacher, rebuke your [3>]talmidim[<3]!"
{19:40} He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the
stones would cry out."
{19:41} When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, {19:42}
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to
your shalom! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. {19:43} For the
days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade
against you, surround you, tzitzit you in on every side, {19:44} and
will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will
not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the
time of your visitation."
{19:45} He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who
bought and sold in it, {19:46} saying to them, "It is written, 'My
house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
{19:47} He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief
[4>]Kohanim[<4] and the [5>]Sofrim[<5] and the leading men among the
people sought to destroy him. {19:48} They couldn't find what they
might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:29} disciples
[2] {19:37} disciples
[3] {19:39} disciples
[4] {19:47} priests
[5] {19:47} scribes
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